stet

American  

[stet] / stɛt /

verb (used without object)

stetted, stetting

1. let it stand (used imperatively as a direction on a printer's proof, manuscript, or the like, to retain material previously cancelled, usually accompanied by a row of dots under or beside the material).

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verb (used with object)

stetted, stetting

1. to mark (a manuscript, printer's proof, etc.) with the word “stet” or with dots as a direction to let cancelled material remain.

stet British  

/ stɛt /

noun

1. a word or mark indicating that certain deleted typeset or written matter is to be retained Compare dele

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verb

1. (tr) to mark (matter to be retained) with a stet

Etymology

Origin of stet

1815–25; < Latin stēt, present subjunctive 3rd person singular of stāre to stand

Example Sentences

Luckily, she was kind, and if you changed it she would just change it back and stet it without upbraiding you.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015

Vides, ut alta stet nive candida Soracte, nec iam sustineant onus Sylvae laborantes, geluque Flumina constiterint acuto?

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)

The Crown retired from the suit with a stet processus and Mr. Bradlaugh was left with the laurels—and his costs.

From Reminiscences Of Charles Bradlaugh by Foote, G. W. (George William)

Yet the 'Mostellaria' is certainly one of those plays to which the criticism of Horace— Securus cadat an recto stet fabula talo,— is peculiarly applicable.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.

Already I have cited a portion of Ramsay's rendering of Horace's famous Ode, Vides ut alta stet nive candidum Soracte.

From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant